Attachment for dcugh-molding machines



F. H. VAN HOUTEN.

ATTACHMENT FOR DOUGH MOLDING MACHINES.

APPLICATION man JAN-2|, I9I8.

1,333,885. Patented Mar. 16,1920.

2 SHEETS-SHEET l- I I I I anmwttoz F. H. VAN HOUTEN.

ATTACHMENT FOR DOUGH MOLDING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.2I, 1918.

a v m k; m i mm a 4 n Mm h f d m W m X P W UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK H. VAN HGUTEN, OF BEACON; NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO DUTCHESS TOOL COMPANY, OF BEACON, NEVT YGEK, A CORPORATION 01 NEVT YORK.

ATTACHMENT FOR DCUG MGLDING MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Ma1-.'16,1920.

Application filetl January 21, 1918. Serial No. 212,500.

tain'new and useful Improvements in At- .tachments for Dou 'h-Moldim Machines b b 7 and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptlon of the sanie, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specilication. 7

This invention relates to dough conveyers for attachment to molding machines of the type in which a molding drum is used.-

The object of this invention is to obtain a convenient fixture for attachment to a dough molding machine for the'purpose of keeping the rolls of don placed in the baking pan.

A further object of the invention is to provide a belt carrier that can be readily attached or detached to the molding machine. further object of the invention is to provide a separate attachment which may lifted from a dough molding machine and one in which a friction roll, adapted to be thrown into and out of contact with. the molding drum, drives the beltcarrier.

In the drawings,-

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my device 7 shown attached to an ordinary molding machine; s

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the structure shown in Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view of my. device with the friction wheel thrown back upon the table.

in the drawings, 1 represents the frame of an ordinary dough-making machine such as is illustrated in the patent to C. A. Thomson. No. 701.646, dated June 3, 1902. Upon this frame is pivoted a molding drum 2 mounted on an axle 3 and turning in the direction indicated by the arrow. In a machine of this type, lumps or measured parts of the dough are succe sively placed in the machine and the latter then automatically forms the dough first into a sheet, then rolls the same up into spiral form, and finally works the spiral roll into alongitudiual roll, ready for insertion in the pan. The molding wheel rolls these pieces of dough against a flexible shield (not shown), and finally delivers the dough to the incline 4, the usual method gh separated until being to allow the rolls of'dough to pass from this ncline down a further incline and to accumulate at the bottom, but by this method the a cumulated dough rolls stick together and cause alot of trouble, and it is to avoid such trouble that the present 111- vention. is designed.

The dough carrier of my invention ineludes two side plates 5 each provided with a lower leg 6 adapted to press against the front frame 7 of the molding machine, just above the raised beading 8, usual in machines of this type. An upper leg 9 on each plate 5 overhangs the flat horizontal surface 10 of the molding machine and by a shoulder 11' rigidly holds the carrierin place. In the plates is journaled an axle 12 carrying a roller 13 which. furnishes a support for one end of an en'dlessbelt 14, the other support beingprovided by the roller 15 mounted on an axle 16 rotatably mounted in the two arms 17 slidably carried by the frame made up of. the side plates 5.

One of the arms 17 (orboth if desired) has an enlarged portion .18, at the end next to the plates 5, the lower end ofthis enlarged portion being provided with teeth 19 forming a rack which cooperates with a toothed wheel 20 on shaft 21, journaled through the plates for the purpose of regulating the tension of the endless belt 14 by varying the distance between the rollers 13 and 15. The.

ally supported on the shaft 12 in such man nor that the casing arms may be thrown away from the drum so as to permit the friction wheel 23 to rest upon the table formed by the belt 14:. The shaft 24; carries at one end a bevel ear 26 meshing with a similar gear 27 on a shaft 28 journaled in projections 29 carried by one of the casing arms 25. The shaft 28 carries a worm 29 on the end remote from the bevel gear 27, this worm cooperating with a worm wheel 30 secured to the shaft 12 which drives the belt by means of the roller 13.

The dough carrying fixture can readily be detached from the machine by raisingthe plates .3 until the shoulders 11 clear the front frame of the machine, the casing arms )nveyer Janie, en el Qlese belt M) such time being preferably thrown on their axis 1:2 so as topermit all of the parts carried thereby t rest directly on the table formed by the belt of the e1 tlless carrier.

In use the molding (ll-um rels the batches of deugh at regular intervals; and. delivers thereby the incline to the e Q en b y connncl since this belt isbeing t"? tact the friction roll e drum the rolls of cleughwill he 1 distances en the belt and are tel-:en

such belt and placed in lens tor billi- -zhne ObVlhlllflg' all or r3 ea; is the case when my attachment is What is claimed is: V

1". The combination with a. dough molding machine of the type in which a drum is employetl, or a nmnrmlly detachable cenveyer frame, an endless belt niou ted therein an l means 111-0 iiiblfi into and out CORtdCt- WW1, theniolthng drum for opera ng the entiless belt.

2. The cozn'binetlon with drum typ mohhng inachn e nmnuelli de I operated by t 111 for men I e 1 including a 1 q giro-tally ealrieclby sa d tram e elm l erein end me: the inohhngtlr 'rictionroll engageuble with ince mounted at the extremity 3. The combination 'v-aith inumaehlne at the type 111 i rolls the flattened sheets of dough into spi ml rolls, or a tletacha-ble conveyer frame an r the difficulty Ll by the rolls of dough stielnng to-' endless belt meunte'tl therein, a pair of arms telly mounted 1.11 Sal-cl frame ant} carryztt one extremity thereof at: etlon Wheel to r-e' ageing the drum 111 one 1 i 1 let tne endless oeh in an- 11d means connecting the orbinatien with a dough meldie type in wluch'zi dough zringthe dough balls segmr i other vher. discharged i'rein (linen, and, means operetecl by the t. rum musing such movement 0'5 emsin. tz-tehrnent for machines erndrum, conveyer "fire-me,

e0 lfidll't W said machine, an eh; carried by said frame,

a 2 ant operarfeee the clrinifer (liming structure, 3. lfrzune, n er, a ehzlit on which said reller'le mount 'nien 'on said shit, and m ans pii to" eriving'szml r means 1:5 in one p05; rrennering L13 device inoper he *1 another position, a second 2 "le s belt mounted on seitljrol s H Ti Ci W 1 iikezull an in inoperative position.

FRANK H. VAN H'GUTEN.

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